This photocopy of a document is related to the abolitionist movement and efforts to protect freedom seekers in Massachusetts. It is specifically connected to the famous Latimer Case (1842), in which abolitionists including Frederick Douglass helped to prevent Lewis Latimer’s father, George W. Latimer, a fugitive from slavery in Virginia, from being sent back into bondage. The case fueled the anti-slavery movement in the state. This photocopy appears to have been used in planning for the exhibition Blueprint for Change: The Life and Times of Lewis H. Latimer at the Queens Borough Public Library in 1995.

Latimer Family Papers (1870-1996 ) [QPL Full Collection]